Yahoo! Sports reported last night and the Orlando Sentinel 's Brian Schmitz confirmed that Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard has split with his longtime agent, Aaron Goodwin. As of Monday morning, Howard's biography is still listed on Goodwin Sports Management's Web site. Goodwin's agency, Seattle-based Goodwin Sports Management, has helped Howard build his social-media presence, as this mid-November story from the Sentinel shows. The departure of Howard, one of pro sports' most charismatic athletes, certainly would hurt any agent's business.

Apopka Mayor Joe Kilsheimer picked Clifford Shepard as the replacement for Frank Kruppenbacher, who served 30 years as the city's legal adviser. Shepard will cost the city $3,000 a month, half Kruppenbacher's monthly retainer fee. Shepard, who also serves as legal counsel for Maitland and Mount Dora, was the unanimous recommendation of a six-person screening committee appointed by Mayor Joe Kilsheimer to review potential candidates. The mayor's original choice, Thomas Cloud of GrayRobinson, resigned before he performed any work for the city because his mobile phone number appeared on the client list of an Orange County brothel shut down by a police investigation.

The jailed husband of a prostitute whose client list has been ruled a public record said he is satisfied now that the men's names will be released.Former Broward County deputy sheriff Jeffrey Willets, is serving a 3 1/2-year term for assaulting his wife, Kathy, after their arrests and faces charges that he hired a hit man to intimidate her new boyfriend.The Florida Supreme Court decision ''was a sort of a vindication,'' Willets, who still maintains his innocence, said from jail this week.

Five Central Florida law firms and two lawyers beat today's deadline to apply for legal adviser of Apopka, a position that opened last month when the mayor's choice resigned amid questions over a brothel's client list. Thomas Cloud was chosen by Mayor Joe Kilsheimer last month after longtime city attorney Frank Kruppenbacher was forced out. But Cloud resigned before his first day on the job because of the brothel brouhaha, which he called "malicious gossip...presented as fact.

Maitland Vice Mayor Phil Bonus acknowledged Tuesday night that his name appears on the same prostitution-ring client list that last week led state Rep. Mike Horner to abandon his re-election campaign. The list, which investigators say they confiscated from a man who ran a brothel in east Orange County, details half a dozen visits from January 2010 to March 2011 by Bonus, a 58-year-old divorce lawyer. "My horrible choices back then were things that my wife and children have forgiven me for, and I'm trying to forgive myself for," said Bonus, a member of the City Council since 2008.

Jennifer Love Hewitt will be back under the sheets for a new season of "The Client List. " Lifetime has renewed the Sony Pictures Television-produced freshman drama for a 15-episode second season. Move was widely expected considering the scripted series is a hit for the femme-skewing cabler. Show stars Love Hewitt as a single Texas mom who has a secret life working at a day spa that is a cover for a prostitution ring. Cybill Shepherd , Loretta Devine and Colin Egglesfield also star.

Jennifer Love Hewitt drew 2.8 million callers, er, viewers Sunday night with Lifetime 's 10 p.m. premiere of "The Client List. " Sony Pictures Television series stars Love Hewitt as a single Texas mom who has a secret life working at a day spa that is a cover for a prostitution ring. Cybill Shepherd , Loretta Devine and Colin Egglesfield also star. In the 18-49 demo, "The Client List" had an aud of 1.2 million and 1.3 million in the 25-54 demo.

No, you aren't imagining things if you see the ads for "The Client List" and wonder where star Jennifer Love Hewitt 's ample bosom is hiding. The latest promotional pictures are showing considerably less cleavage than a previous version of the ads. Hewitt tells The Kevin & Bean Show on KROQ that she had no idea they were going to alter the pictures. "Somebody sent me a copy of the photograph, and I was like, 'Umm, what happened?' I'm not quite sure what's going on. But apparently somebody wanted me to have a boob reduction," says Hewitt.

The name of sportscaster Marv Albert, who is awaiting trial in Virginia on forcible assault and sodomy charges, appears on a ''client list'' recovered by police from the Manhattan apartment of a dominatrix slain Saturday night, law enforcement sources said Wednesday.Alongside Albert's name in the list is a price and a phone number, a law enforcement source said.Investigators probing the grisly slaying of Nadia Frey found three lists of names in her West Side apartment: a regular address book, a list of people who inquired about the veteran dominatrix's services and a client list with prices next to the names, law enforcement sources said.

A judge on Wednesday expressed doubt that clients in a prostitution case can legally block the release of a customer list, but said he will hear arguments on the matter on Monday.That list, tapes of secretly recorded phone conversations, a Rolodex and other items seized by police in a search of Kathy Willets' house and her husband's car last month have dozens of men in a tizzy.Five attorneys representing at least nine ''John Does'' appeared before state Circuit Judge John Frusciante Wednesday to argue that the data should be kept confidential.

Newly hired Apopka City Attorney Thomas A. Cloud resigned Tuesday amid reports linking his mobile-phone number to a client list of a defunct brothel in east Orange County. Mayor Joe Kilsheimer said he asked for Cloud's resignation Tuesday and the GrayRobinson lawyer submitted it. "I clearly think there are people who set out to assassinate Tom's character," Kilsheimer said. "At the same time, Apopka is a unique community that has expectations about people's behavior. What was reported in the paper doesn't comport with those expectations.

Apopka Mayor Joe Kilsheimer said Monday he is looking into questions about newly hired City Attorney Thomas A. Cloud after a mobile phone number linked to the lawyer appeared on a client list of a brothel in east Orange County. The client list was among records released to the Orlando Sentinel and other media in 2012 by Orange-Osceola County prosecutors as part of a criminal case against the brothel's owner. The phone number linked to Cloud through public documents became an issue only after Kilsheimer forced out longtime City Attorney Frank Kruppenbacher and hired Cloud on July 2. Cloud, an attorney with GrayRobinson in Orlando, denied to Kilsheimer that he had been a customer of the brothel, the mayor said.

A Seminole County teacher whose name turned up on a client list at an East Orange County brothel has resigned to avoid being fired. Christopher Dalland, 35, a chemistry teacher at Lake Brantley High School, was up for suspension without pay Tuesday by the School Board, but quit his job instead. He had been removed from the classroom when the allegations surfaced last month, and personnel director Ron Pinnell said Dalland was on track to be fired for conduct unbecoming a school district employee, misconduct in office, immorality and insubordination.

Newly released documents, photos and videos seized in a prostitution bust that ensnared Central Florida politicians Mike Horner and Phil Bonus reveal client lists, photos of men and women in various states of undress, sex acts and identification of purported customers. The information, released Friday by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office, is part of a court case against Mark Risner, 55. He is charged with running a brothel out of his house on Vincent Road in the Union Park neighborhood of east Orange County.

State Rep. Mike Horner said Friday he will resign as president of the Kissimmee/Osceola Chamber of Commerce, following the disclosure last month that he was on the client list of an east Orange County brothel. Horner submitted his resignation letter at the chamber's noon board meeting. His last day as president will be Jan. 31. Horner served 15 years in the job, which paid $137,000 a year. Last month, Horner — a two-term state legislator — abruptly ended his re-election campaign for the Florida House.

The Maitland City Council sent a strong message of disapproval to one of its own on Monday night with a vote to strip Phil Bonus of his title as the city's vice mayor after the revelation that his name was on the client list of an east Orange County prostitution ring and that he was charged with DUI last December. Bev Reponen, who has served on the council since 2007 and was vice mayor in the past, will again fill that role. Bonus remains a member of the city council. He said last week that he would not resign but has since refused to respond to questions about his plans.

Newly hired Apopka City Attorney Thomas A. Cloud resigned Tuesday amid reports linking his mobile-phone number to a client list of a defunct brothel in east Orange County. Mayor Joe Kilsheimer said he asked for Cloud's resignation Tuesday and the GrayRobinson lawyer submitted it. "I clearly think there are people who set out to assassinate Tom's character," Kilsheimer said. "At the same time, Apopka is a unique community that has expectations about people's behavior. What was reported in the paper doesn't comport with those expectations.

Enter The Firm in the record books. The film, starring Tom Cruise, raked in more than $7 million on its first day Wednesday, making it the biggest Wednesday opening of a non-sequel in film history.The drama, based on the John Grisham bestseller, also stars Gene Hackman, Holly Hunter, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Ed Harris.In it, Cruise plays Harvard-educated Mitch McDeere, who takes a dream job with a seemingly reputable law firm, only to discover that high on the client list is the Mafia.

A video showing Maitland Vice Mayor Phil Bonus stumbling just before he was arrested for DUI in December adds to his woes as some residents urge him to resign following the revelation of the arrest and the news that his name was on the client list of a prostitution ring. The video was released Friday by the State Attorney's Office in Hillsborough County in response to public-records requests. None of the clients of the east Orange County brothel were charged in connection with that case.

Maitland Vice Mayor Phil Bonus acknowledged Tuesday night that his name appears on the same prostitution-ring client list that last week led state Rep. Mike Horner to abandon his re-election campaign. The list, which investigators say they confiscated from a man who ran a brothel in east Orange County, details half a dozen visits from January 2010 to March 2011 by Bonus, a 58-year-old divorce lawyer. "My horrible choices back then were things that my wife and children have forgiven me for, and I'm trying to forgive myself for," said Bonus, a member of the City Council since 2008.